Example sentences of "and [vb past] that there " in BNC.

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1 Then he remembered the copy of Ruggiero 's letter , and realized that there was something he could do after all .
2 Briefly he wondered if it could be true , and realised that there was no way to be sure .
3 She jiggled the receiver and realised that there was no dialling tone .
4 ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’
5 If this is what Making Belfast Work is all about , then it showed a lack of concern for real economic development per se and revealed that there was an alternative agenda .
6 In a White Paper issued shortly after it came to office , the new Conservative administration reviewed the development of the PES system to date and argued that there should be regular in-depth reviews of spending programmes , on both a departmental and an interdepartmental basis .
7 Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better .
8 The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people .
9 Officials compared the judicial statistics with those of India and found that there were proportionately several times more cases in Sri Lanka .
10 Lecointre ( unpublished memoir , DEA , University of Paris VII ( 1989 ) ) has examined sequences of 361 nucleotides of the 5' extremity of 28S rRNA and found that there are only two base-pair positions , out of 361 , common to lampreys and hagfishes : and there is only one position uniquely shared by lampreys and gnathostomes .
11 The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 .
12 The jury negatived negligence and found that there was contributory negligence on the plaintiffs ' part , and Hawke J. held that there was no conversion , for the defendants had acted reasonably .
13 But then I finally stopped resisting and found that there 's a life in the land beyond the life of any one person , Thomas ; the lives of the people only stand in the way . ’
14 Br. , 1991 , 27 , 821 ) , and believed that there was something important for us there .
15 He applied it to er the evolution of the cosmos as a whole and indeed to society , and believed that there was an ine inevitable onward and upward tendency of evolution from simple to complex , from isolated to unified , from erm stupid to more intelligent and so on .
16 The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ?
17 The Civic Trust undertook a survey in 1976 and estimated that there were then 104 670 hectares of urban wasteland in Great Britain .
18 In Birmingham , Newton ( 1976 , chs 3 and 4 ) identified over 4,000 organized groups and estimated that there were probably about twice that number in total .
19 She started down the street , and noticed that there was some sort of commotion .
20 A DOCTOR was checking a patient 's eyes with a torch and noted that there was no abnormal pupil dilation .
21 Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground .
22 " You 're tired , " she said , and added that there was no point in gloom because gloom made everything worse .
23 The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont said after the meeting that " there was a great feeling of disappointment " concerning economic reform in the Soviet Union , and added that there was no question of the industrialized nations assisting the Soviet Union with its balance of payments .
24 Writing in the scientific journal Nature , researchers from the University of Victoria , British Columbia , insisted that it was " difficult to express the importance " of their findings , and added that there were no obvious explanations as to why the climate had remained " strangely stable " recently .
25 AT&T said it expected the change on future earnings to be negligible and added that there would be no effect on cash flow .
26 Ron George , the leader of the Native Council of Canada , accused those who rejected the agreement as having " perpetuated apartheid in this country " and predicted that there would be increased violence among the indigenous peoples , who currently constituted around 5 per cent of Canada 's total population .
27 On April 23 , in a bid to defuse the conflict , Kohl proposed a 5 per cent pay cut for all ministers and top civil servants and pledged that there would be no further tax increases during the current legislative period ( i.e. until the autumn of 1994 ) .
28 However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " .
29 He carried out an observational study of ear , nose , and throat outpatient clinics and showed that there were systematic variations in patient assessment routines among consultants , rooted in differences between the specialists in their informal decision making rules .
30 In 1987 the House of Commons Environment Committee urged the creation of water protection zones and commented that there was ‘ no place for extended discussion ’ between the DoE and MAFF .
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